The PRELIFE project of the Origins Center Netherlands has 15 PhD projects! Are you a MSc graduate in Physics, Earth Science, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Maths, Education? Want to reconstruct the conditions on Earth when life originated in the Hadean? Come join us! www.originscenter.nl/prelife/

Within the context of the interdisciplinary PRELIFE consortium me and Wim van Westrenen are advertising a joint PhD position on the surface water levels and atmospheric composition of the earliest Earth: www.formingworlds.space/phdposition2.... Deadline: 10th June. Please share! 🌋🌏🧬

Are you a geophycisist/petrologist with a taste for numerical modeling and transdisciplinary collaboration? Apply now, and until June 10, for our vacant PhD position on Hadean Paleogeography, in context of the Origins Center's PRELIFE project! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Ever wondered what the Hadean ocean looked like? 🌊🌊🌊 Come work with us on 🧪silicate weathering experiments🧪 simulating the geochemistry of the first ocean and be part of a large consortium investigating the origin of life #prelife. @ingeloes.bsky.social Apply here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

First group done! One more to go. #SciComm #Astrochemistry #ALMA #Weekendschool

So I was more or less offline (playing Horizon Forbidden West) from December 25 til January 7, and I missed the end of the competition, but I'm happy to see that Io won!

My favorite astronomical object 😍

Tomorrow, I'm teaching a guest lesson for IMC Weekendschool students about light and telescopes. This is the third year in a row, and it's always a lot of fun, but I didn't have a chance to go check my supplies until today. The uni turns the lights off out of hours, which is great for energy 😅

today's vibe:

MINDS. JWST-MIRI Reveals a Peculiar CO2-rich Chemistry in the Drift-dominated Disk CX Tau astrobiology.com/2024/12/mind... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #JWST

1st semi-final of ✨ #planetaryScience image of 2024 ✨ Mars vs. Earth 🧪⚛️ In the thread below, vote by ❤️ing the image you want to see advance to the final. 🗳️ Voting ends on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 4 p.m. CET/10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST/midnight JST.

Vote vote! Arguably, the first image was prettier, but I love OSIRIS-REx more than any comet 🤩😍

Don't forget to vote before tomorrow! I'm super pleased that Io won the last round, but this one was a tough choice

Check out this article from STFC about our sonification of astronomical data, and beyond! including a new sonification at the end - perceive multi-scale information about galaxy formation in our cosmological simulations... 🧪🔭⚡🐡. medium.com/big-science-...

I hope the response is good because school doesn't work for so many students, and teenagers should have their burnout recognized too. I had my first burnout when I was 14, and no one around me was even aware enough to recognize it.

Super cool study *and* it has all of the good open science practices built in 😍

🗃 🧪 #medicine #law #anthropology and more - fully funded PhD places at Bristol University for Black UK students. Please share!

New paper! 🧵 Exploring Neurodiversity: An Annotated Reading List 🧵 We annotate 9 themes for readers interested in neurodiversity, including the history of neurodiversity, embracing neurodivergent voices, and shifting perspectives on autism, ADHD, and more. Paper is here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Gotta love Io, the second best moon in the solar system (after Enceladus)

I'm always wary about invoking Fandom in public spaces, but so far, I've only met my science peeps on here and wouldn't mind some fan stuff in my feed. #StarWars obsessed since 1994, #LotR / #Tolkien since 2001 I got my shrines but they could use a better setup I'm tired of critics, good vibes only

One of the best parts of a #LotR marathon is screaming, "For Gondor!"

You’re making your list, checking it twice, for gifts that spark a love of science in the kids in your life. Mahnaz Dar and Carrie Wolfson join us to highlight some of the top kids' science books of 2024

My favorite part of social media in December

Alongside my astrochemistry research and collaborating with FORRT folx, I'm working on a paper with fellow #Astronomom Melinda Soares-Furtado (msoaresfurtado.com) and Associate Prof of Human Development and Family Studies Jessica DeGol (pure.psu.edu/en/persons/j...) ...

Our November newsletter is now out! Missed it? Catch it below. Here we document our project updates 💡, and upcoming events / meetings 📅 Read November newsletter here: mailchi.mp/forrt/forrt-... Subscribe to our newsletter here: forrt.org/newsletters/

My first adventure in collaborative science outside astronomy 💖 Check out our annotated ND reading list ✨️

Hooray!

My friend and groupmate Jayatee Kanwaar is defending her PhD thesis today! Her work was on chemical evolution in Protoplanetary and planet forming disks. The thesis defense is one of the best ceremonies at the University 💖 I'm always so proud of my friends

This is amazing! But also totally in character for NASA folx 😆

As a #first-gen, non-traditional / mature student, my life and career milestones haven't exactly gone in the "correct" order. My oldest was born in the summer between the end of my Bachelors and the masters year of my MPhys at Leeds, which made for a weird year.

It's been 6 years since I defended my thesis, and I find my propositions could have been more aggressive... #EDI #SocialJustice

EDI 6: My obsession with fighting for people's rights led me to @forrt.bsky.social and their Neurodiversity team. Alongside showing how academics can work well in collaborations (which I've not really seen in astronomy), they were advocating for equity and accessibility in academic publishing

Ok! The tism says make grouped lists and the ADHD says chaos... Let's see how I can get started. Science: As an astrochemist of the 2014 PhD cohort, I am a big #ALMAobservatory fangirl. I am obsessed with prebiotic molecules (especially #formamide... like I might get a tattoo of it 😍).

Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Hi all, I'm new here, but I've joined the astro exodus from doomed twitter. Hopefully, my friends and I find each other here.